ABSTRACT
Materials and procedure. Each child was visually presented a list of 15 low imageability, low-age-of-acquisition words to, learn. The child was first given the printed list of words and asked to make a prediction as to which words would be learned, called Ease of Learning judgment (EOL), then was given three study-and-recall trials of the printed word list. Study of the list was limited to 45 sec (3 sec per word), but recall was not time limited. The procedure utilized in the study-recall trials was based on findings in a preliminary study (Hanten et aI., 2000) and designed to minimize differences in immediate recall between the children with severe TBI and the control children. Following the third recall trial, the child made a second judgment (JOL), which was the child's appraisal of how well a particular item has been learned-that is, whether or not the he or she would be able to recall the item after a 2-hr delay. Finally, following the final delayed recall trial, the child was asked to assess his or her performance on the test by indicating which of the words he or she thought had been correctly recalled-the Judgment of Knowing (JOK). For each of the judgments, the child could make one of three responses: "easy," "hard," or "not sure" for the EOL; "sure I will remember," "sure I will not remember," or "not sure" for the JOL; and "sure I did remember," "sure I did not remember," or "not sure" for the JOK. For each of the judgments, the child was allowed unlimited time.
